If I can remember correctly there are numerous across the border law decisions that the US will not recognize or has not recognized.  (One I can immediately remember is - Mexico (or is it Canada) has no death penalty and as such will not extradite murderers to the US unless we throw them in jail for life.  Comments please!!

One of two things can happen with this. A precedent setting judgment by the influential SC of NY will revoke this. Or outrage at foreign law incursions into N.Y. law will aid calls for a defense of marriage bill.

Harvey - You’re right about Mexico. Usually what happens if the U.S. wants someone back enough, they agree to forego the death penalty and agree to life without possibility of parole. Then Mexico will extradite.

While the facts could be somewhat clearer the NY decision appears to be an astounding reversal of long-settled law. It does not appear that the appellants were ever Canadian legal residents. Accordingly, longstanding law does not permit them to “forum shop” for a marriage venue and then return home. Their home state has exclusive jurisdiction over domestic matters. That is why the Dominican, Mexican, etc. divorces were never valid. You do not escape the reach of your home state’s domestic laws merely because you take a 48-hour romantic weekend to a foreign locale and find a wedding chapel that says you ar married.

Oh, here we go again. When does America get sick and tired of such exhibitionism? The problem is that there is no sunset law for such opportunism. This “marriage’s” validy should get struck down. The NY Supremes have done what the Mass Supremes did, that this, invade the territory of the legislature as of the separation of powers applies to everything except far left agendas.  LM

Yes, and if this “marriage” is found valid following the inevitable appeals, then plural marriages will have been legalized as well.  If it’s legal for a man to have more than one wife in Pakistan, then he can bring them all here, by this logic.  And then, why prevent U.S. men from having multiple wives if it’s legal for immigrants?

New York voters should begin to think more clearly about whom they elect and what kinds of judges their elected officials will appoint.

Does anybody know th caliber of this court? The ninth circ court in Califorinia is the most reversed in the country.  Is this a super lib court?

A little clarification here might help.  The Supreme Court in New York is not the *top* court in New York, it is an intermediate appeals court.  The New York Court of Appeals is the final stop.  So, there is one more stop within New York at the Court of Appeals that can hopefully overturn this horrible precedent.  If not then the County can apply for a writ of certiori to the US Supreme Court to see if they will take the case.